I did explain what I meant by death in my post: People will continue to read printed books for a long time, just as some people still watch movies on VHS. But

I did explain what I meant by death in my post: People will continue to read printed books for a long time, just as some people still watch movies on VHS. But the printed book will be "dead" in a few short years in the sense that the bulk of the adoption curve, the pragmatic majority, will have moved on.